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Our raspberries are summer captured in juicy jewel bites. When they hang out with Legend Distilling‘s craft vodka along with some BC blueberry and cranberry pals summer is but a pour away, anytime of the year.

A good portion of our Naramata Carpe Diem berry farm’s raspberries end up at Legend Distilling, a short walk from us. They use them as a cocktail garnish and in their Slowpoke Farm Berry Vodka.

Distiller and Legend owner Doug Lennie was pressing off the fruit that had been infusing into his craft vodka for a secret amount of time when I dropped off this morning’s harvest.

Doug giving the batch a stirThe spent fruit goes into a fruit pressThe raspberries have given up their lovely hue to the vodka.Fruit press in actionThe pressed juice goes back into the steel tank and the vodka will be bottled and labelled next week.

The whole operation is closely supervised by distillery dog Roxy

The vodka has a beautiful colour and Legend’s legendary view is the perfect backdrop. It tastes out of this world but for me the lovely fruity aroma is the best part.I can’t think of a better home for our organically-grown raspberries…